“Craxi was not ashamed and he went into exile and died at Hammamet. After all that he had done, he made Violante and D’Alema have a commemoration for him in the Lower House.
These words bring to mind, in their celebratory emphasis, the poem “Il Cinque Maggio” by Manzoni and dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte.

They were written by Fabrizio Cicchitto of Forza Italia. I’m going to be fronting up to him this evening on the TV programme called “Confronti” on RAI 2.
Napoleon died in exile. Craxi however was a fugitive from justice to avoid being in prison after being convicted of corruption and illegal financing of political parties.
But this difference must not be clear to Cicchitto and to Forza Italia, as it cannot be clear to them what they are saying when they talk of “political use of the judiciary”.

They should talk rather of “use of politics against the justice system”, a topic in which they have shown themselves to be true experts with the laws passed by this Government.
Legality is the basis of every democracy. Those who violate this principle cannot represent democracy.